Some nice new lenses coming from P&S

[Paul Moss]

i have just been sent an email from P&S and noticed some nice looking Nikon mount lenses coming soon.......very exciting....!
http://www.pstechnik.de/en/optics-lensset.php

Paul

[Bruce Allen]

Very, very nice! I expect Evin will be giving us his educated opinion on this shortly... price announcement at NAB, I hope?

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[M Olsen]

Interesting.. something wider like a 16 or 18 would really round out the set.
Pricing ?

[Sean Michael Johnston]

Looks cool, but I wonder if they have variable aperture adjustments. I can't see any kind of gear ring for it in the pics.
I'm guessing they will have these on display at NAB. The hard part will be fighting through the crowds to get my hands on one.

[Evin Grant]

Those are the Zeiss ZF lenses rehoused. Should perform the same. We'll have to wait to see if they are at all affordable.

[Sean Michael Johnston]

this from Anders from another thread

Interesting:

In addition, a new family of 35mm Cinema Prime Lenses, based on the Zeiss ZF series optics, with precision focus gears and distance markings will be offered with the 2K-35™, including 25 mm, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm models.

Cinema Primes Lenses at $2,200 each, with availability in early 3Q’07.

[Evin Grant]

$2200 is not horrendous, I wonder if they would rehouse any other nikon mount lenses like my favorite 17-35 or the 135mm f2. They would be good compliments to the ZFs.

[Alex Boothby]

Correct me if I'm wrong... but is this more or less the same process offer here:

http://www.rplens.com/products.htm

[Evin Grant]

HELL NO! That RP lens guy is just ading a step up ring and a lens gear. The P+S Technic guys are completely rehousing the ZFs including adding pro focusing marks and a real focus draw for precise pulls. Huge diffrence!

[Matt Uhry]

P+S makes very nice products and I'm glad that they rehoused these Zeiss / Cosina's.

I wish the ZF based set was a little faster and a little wider. I can deal with an economy set of lenses being a mixed T1.4 and T2.0 but not the 25mm T2.8 - what's the point of that? Also the set seems incomplete without something more in the 18mm range.

Have a look here for some thrilling Zeiss / Nikon comparison testing... Ken Rockwell does not think the ZF 50mm is all that hot.

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/50-comparison/

Matt Uhry
www.mattuhry.com

[chuck colburn]

Looks like they still focus backwards. Which leads me to believe that they are just new shells and not complete new helicoids. Which makes sense for the price they are asking.

[Dan Blanchett]

Correct me if I'm wrong... but is this more or less the same process offer here:

http://www.rplens.com/products.htm

These Nikons from RP Lens seem more affordable than the Zeiss, but are they worth it? I already bought 2 Nikon lenses and was going to add the lens gear (with hard stops...Zacuto?) that Evin recommended. Now I'm not so sure what to do.

I wonder if P+S Technik will do this with higher speed lenses?

[Miguel "Macgregor" De Olaso]

The basic question is:

have they been re-worked so focus can be pulled all the way from 0-270 (aprox) degrees instead of having a small arch? Can the iris be controlled without hard stops?

Price would be ok if they had used quite good glass, but i read nothing but bad comments about the new zeiss lenses. Maybe they should use nikon...

[LighthouseMEdia]

Wonder how the breathing would be on the these?
Would they handle more like a cine lens do to being re-housed?

[donatello b]

looking at a few still lens - when you focus - all glass elements move ( front glass & rear and everything between) ....
seems on cine lens that do not breathe, just some of the internal glass elements move ( front/rear glass doesn't move)

i would think that just rehousing the lens , the glass elements remain the same ( how it works) and you get a stronger housing with better ft/focus marks, perhaps different internal focus screw gearing so there is more distance bewteen focus markings and follow focus gearing ...

guessing -to change the lens to internal focus would be a total design change ???

at NAB i'm going to ask Zeiss why 25mm at F2.8 ?? why not F2 or faster like the other lenses ...

[Evin Grant]

at NAB i'm going to ask Zeiss why 25mm at F2.8 ?? why not F2 or faster like the other lenses ...

That's easy, because that is what the Zeiss ZF is. It's just a rehoused still lens. The lenses I'd like to see them rehouse like this are the Nikon 17-35mm f2.8 (duh:blink:) the 28mm f1.4 & 35mm f1.4. Now that would be sweet.

[Anders Holck]

Not to mention that the Zeiss ZF lenses are basically re-issues of the older Contax RTS versions. The only difference is improved coating and a modified shape of the aperture blades. Not that it makes them bad, just that the design is older.

You can see the RTS specs here (http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/hardwares/classics/contax/shared/zeiss/zeissRTS.pdf)

[chuck colburn]

There are a few lenses in the Contax group left out of that list. Like the 18 f2.8, the 21 f2.8 and the 200 f2.0 and I think some others.